State Air Resources Board
Location
Sacramento County, CA | United States
Job description
This is a repost. If you have previously applied for this position, there is no need to reapply.
The California Air Resources Board (CARB) is the State agency responsible for reducing greenhouse gas emissions for the State of California. It is CARB’s responsibility to develop a strategy for California to be carbon neutral by 2045, implement policies to achieve carbon neutrality, and to track progress towards that objective. As part of this effort, Natural and Working Lands (NWL) are a critical component of California’s climate change mitigation strategy. NWL refers to all forests, shrublands, grasslands, croplands, deserts, wetlands, and developed lands within California’s boundaries.
The new Nature-Based Strategies Section brings together all of these lands, quantifying their socio-ecological impacts, to formulate statewide holistic nature-based climate action policy. Specifically, this section leads the integration of natural systems into California’s overall carbon neutrality and climate action efforts. The science, policy, and technical work performed in this section will influence high impact policies and programs on local, state, and national levels. To accomplish this, the Nature-Based Strategies Section uses data and scientific inference to inform and develop cutting-edge statewide nature-based policies, decisions, and programs. Work in this section includes:
1. Modeling ecosystems in California under present and future conditions to quantify the contribution of NWL to statewide carbon neutrality and to set carbon targets.
2. Developing and reporting California’s NWL carbon inventory to track progress towards carbon targets, and monitoring other environmental metrics.
3. Performing causal assessments identifying the driving factors to environmental change, particularly isolating the impact from nature-based management actions.
4. Working with other State, Federal, and Local agencies to develop and implement policies that support nature-based strategies.
The newly created Nature-Based Strategies Section is recruiting a Staff Air Pollution Specialist (SAPS) position through this announcement. CARB is seeking a candidate with experience and expertise in NWL policy development, project management, report writing, and science communication.This position will be CARB's lead in the development of statewide policies, interagency coordination, reports, and communication efforts to fulfill the section's reponsibilities, as listed above.
Duties include serving as an expert in natural and working lands issues. The SAPS will stay current on CARB, inter-agency, academic, and federal projects, policies, and programs to ensure that the section is utilzing the best available science and data, and having the greatest policy impact with its work. The SAPS will stay abreast of the work within the section so as to communicate the section's work to outside stakeholders and coordinate meetings with appropriate section staff. The selected candidate will conduct technical and policy analyses, quantifying the costs, benefits, and equity implications of NWL policies and climate action. Additionally, the candidate will identify research needs that advance CARB’s understanding of cutting-edge issues in natural and working lands. The candidate will engage and collaborate with relevant stakeholders including, but not limited to, public agencies, research institutions, equity stakeholders, industry, and other CARB staff, management, and executive leadership teams. The candidate must understand the complexities of natural and working lands and the roles that policy, land management, and the natural environment play. The candidate will incorporate into their work the social equity implications of NWL policies and be able to develop strategies to ensure California's most disadvantaged and low-income communities benefit from such policies. The candidate will lead the generation of all reports within the section and ensure that timelines are being met to ensure successful delivery of section products. The candiate will be the section expert of Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) inventory reporting requirements and ensure that the section work adheres to this protocol. The candidate serves as the project manager for external contracts and inter-agency agreements required as part of the section's goals.
NOTE: IF SELECTED FOR THE POSITION, YOUR SALARY OFFER IS DETERMINED BY WHAT YOU INCLUDE ON YOUR STANDARD STATE APPLICATION (STD. 678). PLEASE INCLUDE A DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF ALL RELEVANT EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATION IN YOUR STATE APPLICATION (STD.678) WHEN APPLYING.
Please note that applicants will need to have successfully taken the Staff Air Pollution Specialist exam or be currently employed as a Staff Air Pollution Specialist in California State Service. Interested candidates can reach out to the hiring manager with any questions about the exam.
Applying electronically via CalCareers is highly recommended. If submitting a hardcopy applications (mail/drop-off), please email [email protected] to confirm submission.
You will find additional information about the job in the .
This position may be eligible for hybrid in-office work and in-state telework. The amount of telework is at the agency's discretion and is based on the California Air Resource Boards' (CARB) current telework policy. While the CARB may support telework, some in-person attendance is also required.
The positions at the CARB may be eligible for telework with in-person attendance based on the operational needs of the position under Government Code 14200 for eligible applicants residing in California, subject to the candidate meeting telework eligibility criteria outlined in the CalEPA telework policy and/or future program need. Employees not residing in California are not eligible for telework. Regardless of hybrid telework eligibility, all employees may be required to report to the position’s designated headquarters location at their own expense, as indicated on their duty statement.
In addition to evaluating each candidate's relative ability, as demonstrated by quality and breadth of experience, the following factors will provide the basis for competitively evaluating each candidate:
The most competaitive candidate will have strong writing, project management, and communication skills, with an ability to speak and write effectively using direct, concise, and non-technical language. Further, the candidate must be able to interact diplomatically with a wide range of stakeholders and collaborators. The candidate should be proficient at making presentations and communicating to both highly technical expert scientists and non-technical persons, alike. The candidate must be organized and possess well-developed project management skills, allowing them to manage multiple high-priority assignments under accelerated and competing deadlines, be adaptable to a rapidly changing policy and political environment, and be comfortable with a flexible and highly collaborative management structure based on cross-agency project teams. The ideal candidate will have knowledge of carbon dynamics, ecosystems, landscape ecology, remote sensing, modeling, and/or programming. Experience working and communicating with various stakeholders and various levels of government, inside and outside of CARB, is necessary. Demonstrable examples of producing public facing products or reports for CARB is desired.
You will find additional information about the job in the Duty Statement.
Benefit information can be found on the CalHR website and the CalPERS website.
For experience/education to qualify during the application screening process and to ensure that minimum qualifications can be determined, applicants should include all employment history on the Employment Application (STD 678), including detailed job descriptions, hours worked per week, and start/end dates (MM/DD/YYYY). Application packages without this information may experience delayed processing times, and your eligibility for this position may be impacted.
If you are using education to meet the minimum qualifications for this position, you must submit a copy of your transcript or diploma. Applicants who completed their education outside the United States (with foreign degrees/transcripts) must obtain and submit verification of the United States course/degree equivalency.
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Failure to submit all the required documentation will result in an incomplete application and disqualification from consideration for this position.
Required Application Package Documents
The following items are required to be submitted with your application. Applicants who do not submit the required items timely may not be considered for this job:
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